Dorothée Wycart’s photographs become the way to reach the depths of poetry by surface effect. Female bodies are plunged into aquatic, mineral, and vegetal elements to suggest a vital energy and a form of ecstasy. The major question that remains is “what does an image open?” The shots are less figures than they are substances within an aestheticism that accepts Eros in accordance with a distinctive and atonal lyrical density. In fact, the image no longer “sings”. It does even better by rising out of the magma for the being’s assumption to an emotional intimacy. In this sense, photography becomes magic, but paradoxically, in its narrowest, most “trivial” connection with the elemental, which alone gives the being’s real truth. The work responds in physical ways, which are, in a way, metaphysical. Life is in full swing within the multiple metamorphoses the artist creates as a faithful heiress to Haiku masters and of Eugène Leroy. It’s a question of opening windows in the name of love.
Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret
Dorothée Wycart, De venir
Through October 9, 2016
Galerie Émilie Dujat
69 rue Defacqz
1060 Bruxelles
Belgium
http://www.emiliedujat.com/
